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Youth in distress, the silent emergency

Since Covid-19, the number of adolescents with mental health problems has exploded. In Belgium, one in five young people suffers from depression. Elsewhere in the world, as evidenced by a recent WHO study, the finding is the same. Why is it essential to address these difficulties in adolescence?

Guests: Sophie Mergen, RTBF journalist; Anne Edan, psychiatrist, deputy doctor and unit manager, child and adolescent psychiatry service at the University Hospitals of Geneva

Presented by: Dominique Laresche